Cycle-saddle.



No. 698,367. Patented Apr. 22, I902. J. B. snooxssb .1. HOLT.

CYCLE SADDLE.

(Application filed. Nov. 28, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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CYCLE SADDLE.

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. .ior N BOULTBEE BROOKS AND JOHN HOLT, or BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

. SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,367, dated April 22, 1902.

' i Application iile'cl November 23,1901. Serial No. 83,461. (No model.)

To all whom it may concernk Be it known that we, J OHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, managing director, and JOHN HOLT,

. works manager, subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing; at Criterion Works, Great Charles street, Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oycle-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in which resiliently sustains the wires at points removed from the portions which are gripped by the washers or plates of the said attachment, the arrangement being such that the said brackets resilientlysupport or sustain the framing-wires againstlevering action caused by the weight of a rider upon the saddle.

According to one form of our improvements as applied to an attachment having rotating frame-grippingwashers, each of the inner washers (which have keep grooves or seatings for the frame-wires to lie within, as usual,)' is made from spring metal, preferably steel,

stituting a spring-wire-supporting bracket, which may either consist of separate arms independently supporting the respective wires or a frame having seatings, recesses, or rests in or upon which the wires lie and which is capable of a degree of. flexible movement.

Figure 1 ofthe accompanying drawings represents a side elevation of partof a cycle-saddle provided with auxiliary means arranged in accordance with our invention for flexibly or yieldingly sustaining the frame-wires and preventing shearing or breakage of the same at points contiguous to the attachment-clip. Fig. 2 is an under side plan of a portion of Fig. 1 with a part in horizontal section upon taken in the line :0 of Fig. 4:. Fig; (i is a side elevation of a slightly-difierent form. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view taken in the line a of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of theframe-gripping washers carrying the resilientwire-sustaining bracket, and Fig. 9 is .an edge view of the same.

Like characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

According to the form of our invention shown in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, each side of the attachment-clip a operates'in connection with an extension or bracket 1), adapted to resiliently support or sustain the framingwires 0 c at points rearward of or removed from the parts which are gripped between the washers or plates at eof the said attachment, the efiect of providing such extended and yielding support being to neutralize any tendency to excessive levering action of the back portions of the wire upon theterminations of their gripped and inflexible parts as fulcra, and also, consequently, prevent shearing or breakage of the wires adjacent to the said. parts. 111 the particular arrangement represented in Figs. 1 to 5 the resilient auxiliary extension-brackets Z) are carried by the rearward edges of the inner wire-gripping washers e, (which are made from spring steel,) and the faces of the upright bars b, connect ing the two flexible bracket-arms 12 which are capable of yielding or moving with the wires more or less to the extent indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, are each provided with a'pair of grooves or horizontal seating's 1), corresponding to the kBGPt'Q'I'OOVGS e inthe washers e, and wherein the parts of the wires to which the additional support is to be afforded lie, and are thereby flexibly sustained or upheld, but in such a manner as to not interfere with the resilient or spring action of the framing as a whole.

In the said Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9, ais the at IOG tachment-clip, and c the single-sided framing-wires, which are gripped and heldJoetween the clamping washers or plates (1 e. The resilient auxiliary support or flexible spring device for preventing the shearing of the wires rearward of the gripped parts consists of an arm or extension I), directed 'from the rearward edge of the washer e and having a groove or open-fronted seating 17, form ing an extension of the groove 6 in the outer face of the said Washer e, and wherein the framing-wire 0 lies and is resiliently supported or sustained at a point rearward of the parts which are gripped and rigidly held between the washers d e in such a manner that excessive levering action and shearing of the wires is effectually prevented.

Instead of providing the attachment with resilient auxiliary wire-supports extending rearwardly the same may extend forwardly, or both forwardly and rearwardly, and instead ofi, the flexible antishearing brackets being carried by or formed as a part of one of the inner rotating washers of the clip they may be'carried by the outer washers or be A pillar attachment-clip having washers grooved to receive the framing of the saddle, said washers having resilient extensions also grooved to receive said framing, and means for holding the washers in place.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN BOULTB'EE BROOKS. JOHN HOLT.

Witnesses:

HENRY SKERRETT, GAVIN RALSTON. 

